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The operational and security concerns that emerge from moving to the cloud include hijacking of accounts, ransomware, data privacy issues and nation-state attacks.

Organizations most commonly encountered security incidents during runtime, unauthorized access and misconfigurations. All were cited by about one-third of respondents.

Attackers are now on board with businesses' shift to cloud computing, Kevin Bocek, VP of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi, said in a blog post. The ripest target of attack in the cloud is identity management, especially machine identities.

Responsibility for maintaining cloud security has also shifted within organizations, as 25% of enterprise security teams are the most likely to manage cloud security.Operations teams accountable for cloud infrastructure account for 23%, followed by collaborative teams and DevSecOps.

The study of 1,100 security decision makers was conducted by Sapio in July. The officials were based in a range of international markets, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, the Benelux countries and Australia.

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Most organizations had a cloud-related security incident in the past year - Construction Dive